A long line of dead men

About “A long line of dead men”

Matthew Scudder is the protagonist of a crime novel, the twelfth in a series. Lawrence Block is the author, and when he writes in the style of Matthew Scudder, his crime fiction approaches the level of literature. Critics have noted that the distinction between crime fiction and literature becomes almost nonexistent in these works. This observation comes from a review by The Philadelphia Inquirer.